Excerpt from Administrative Reform, and Its Connexion With Working Men's Colleges: An AddressMY friends, - I have been giving lectures during the last term upon the politics of the l6th century. Some of my colleagues have said to me, Why not rather lecture on the politics of the 19th? I have told my class the reasons of my choice I shall not repeat them here. I will Simply tell you that it is not because I am afraid of the present that I have been dwelling upon the past, but because I wish to illustrate the present by the past. I am going to prove that this is the case now. If I have been discoursing to a few members of the College about the times of Henry VIII., I will speak to you who represent the whole of it, to my fellow-teachers as well as my fellow-learners, about the subject which is most occupying us in the time of Queen Victoria.All of us have read a little of what is written in the newspapers, a little of what has been said at public meetings, on the question of Administrative Reform. We have agreed, I suppose, all of us, that there is something very wrong which calls for this reform. We have asked ourselves whether we could do anything to promote it. Most likely some of us have been asked by persons who are taking part in the new League, whether we would not join with them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.